On the threshold of knowledge: Pythagoreans, incommensurability and the experience of modernity.
The Greek experience, as we reconstitute it, accords special value to the “limit” and reemphasizes the long-recognize scandalousness of the irrational: the indecency of that which, in measurement, is immeasurable. (He who first discovered the incommensurability of the diagonal of the square perished; he drowned in a shipwreck, for he had met with a strange […]
“I call disaster…” by Maurice Blanchot, 1980
J’appelle désastre ce qui n’a pas l’ultime pour limite : ce qui entraîne l’ultime dans le désastre. I call disaster that which does not have the ultimate for a limit: it bears the ultimate away in the disaster. ☛ L’Écriture du désastre by Maurice Blanchot, Paris: Gallimard, pp. 33-34. English edition: The Writing of the Disaster […]
